[ale] Dual Boot WinXP Pro + Fedora Core 1 "You are probably out of disk space"

[Brian Chase]

Cool, if you figure out a smooth way to perfect that type of dual boot 
install, let us know.  Always good to keep up on the various methods of 
doing things....

A summary once you've mastered it would be appreciated on this thread.  TIA

All the best...

BC

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

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> yeah, I've known that I had some sanity issues for quite a while B-),
> but really wanted to know how to make this work.  Some kind of personal
> 'rite of passage' or something I guess. I've just booted, and all looks
> well.  The Fedora install took all of the free space (like I told it
> too), so I'm going to have to see if I can resize the / partition.  Once
> I get it just like I want it, I'll probably save any data that I have,
> format, and reinstall just to see if I can replicate all of the mean and
> nasty thoughts I had about dual-booting.
>
> Brian Chase wrote:
>
> | You ask for help, someone tells you an easy way, you decide against it.
> |
> | The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting
> | different results, lol.
> |
> | Oh well, it's fun learning thru your mistakes too, god knows I've done
> | it plenty.
> |
> | Cheers and good luck,
> |
> | BC
> |
> | Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> |
> | Ok, update.  I just went through the process again (I really think I 
> did
> | the same things, but I'm getting a little tunnel visioned now), and 
> it's
> | going through the install.  I used the 'personal desktop' install
> | option, and told it to use the existing free space (hopefully leaving
> | the XP install alone).  Hmmm.
> |
> | Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> |
> | | Ok, I'm just now getting on the dual-boot bandwagon, and it's not 
> quite
> | | as easy as I had expected.  I'm installing on an IBM Thinkpad with a
> | | 60GB drive, and WinXP Pro is already installed on hda1 (factory 
> load).
> | | I used qtparted to size down the partition to 25GB, and wanted to 
> setup
> | | a 10GB partition for Linux (Fedora Core1).  I read through this
> | | 
> (http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resing-ntfs.html),
> | | but couldn't get it to install.  At the point that it should / would
> | | normally start copying files, I get an error stating that I am 
> probably
> | | out of drive space.  I had setup [swap] (hda2 = 512MB), /boot (hda3 =
> | | 100MB), / (hda3 = 9[ish]GB).  So, I figured I'd dorked something up,
> | and
> | | restarted.  Same thing (I went as far as to delete the partitions so
> | | that there was just the 25GB NTFS, and a blank one).  So then, blew
> | away
> | | those partitions (that Linux created) again, and started the install
> | | again, this time choosing the "Personal Desktop" option.  Same
> | error.  I
> | | think I'm just missing something, but can't seem to figure out 
> what it
> | | is.  I know that there's sufficient room there (on / ) for it to
> | | install, or should be at least.  What am I missing?
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